Nature Conservation 3/2009 — 30. 6. 2009 — Nature and Landscape Management — Print article in pdf
Trees Left after Cutting in the Floodplain Forests in South Moravia
The reserved tree is a tree left intentionally within the area logged. Leaving reserved trees after at a site is of extraordinary importance particularly for insects and birds.
The trees provide insectivorous birds, e.g. woodpeckers or various passerines with food resources, birds of prey, storks and herons with resting sites and hole-nesters with nest sites. In addition, reserved trees are habitats for insect species protected under the national legislation or under the European Community Habitats Directive. Therefore, it is necessary to reserve particularly oaks, elms, limes and poplars in the centre of logging, along watercourses and in depressions in the Dyje/Thaya Floodplain and Soutok-Podluží Sites of European Importance (in Act No. 114/1992 Gazette on the Protection of Nature and the Landscape, as amended later, the term for Sites of Community Importance, SCIs under the Habitats Directive). In 2008, the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic and the Forests of the Czech Republic State Enterprise – Židlochovice Division put under the joint agreement to keep a hundred of reserved trees per 10 hectares: under the Article 58 of the above act, an owner shall be compensated by the Government.